DevOps Engineer

Overview

Ever Watch is a government solutions company providing advanced defense, intelligence, and deployed support to our country’s most critical missions. We are a full-service government solutions company. Harnessing the most advanced technology and solutions, we strengthen defenses and control environments to preserve continuity and ensure mission success.

Ever Watch employees are focused on tackling the most difficult challenges of the US Government. We offer the best salaries and benefits packages in our industry - to identify and retain the top talent in support of our critical mission objectives.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, local, or international law.

Dev Ops engineering requires a specific mix of development, engineering, and communication skills. As a Dev Ops engineer, you know that these skills create efficiency and effectiveness—so you can quickly deliver the best solutions for clients. We’re looking for a Dev Ops engineer like you to help develop critical tools—and get them into the hands of those who need them most.

As a Dev Ops engineer at Ever Watch, you’ll streamline the software development lifecycle, from requirements to monitoring in production. You’ll incorporate open-source tools, automation, and cloud resources to cut down on tedious tasks and free up the team’s developers to do what they do best—create. You’ll work with the team to implement continuous integration and delivery to limit manual testing and troubleshooting.

This is an opportunity to hone your skills in the latest automation, infrastructure, and cloud-based development while developing software that will make mission-forward impact.

Use your experience with the software development lifecycle on a team that works together to make the best software solutions. Work with us as we develop tools to transform the future.

Join us. The world can’t wait.

• 10+ years of experience supporting Dev Ops, Site Reliability Engineering, or platform engineering initiatives in an Agile development environment
• 10+ years of experience designing, implementing, and managing AWS cloud or virtualized infrastructure in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment
• 10+ years of experience in system architecture with demonstrated ability to analyze source code and troubleshoot complex software systems
• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins or Bamboo
• Experience implementing configuration management and infrastructure automation using tools such as Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
• Experience leveraging containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Knowledge of Linux operating systems administration in enterprise environments and networking protocols, security practices, and high-availability architectures
• Ability to automate release deployments across development, testing, staging, and production environments
• TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, or Engineering

• Experience deploying and managing workloads in VMware environments
• Experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters, including Rancher Kubernetes Engine (RKE2), in secure customer environments
• Experience working with data streaming and messaging technologies such as Kafka
• Experience administering Postgre
  
  SQL databases
• Experience working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Experience developing software in Java
• Knowledge of data flow and lifecycle management principles
• Ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams including development, testing, operations, and project management
• Possession of strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;
Top Secret clearance with a polygraph is required.

Compensation at Ever Watch is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $91.35 to $103.37 per hour. The estimate displayed represents the typical compensation range for this position and is just one component of Ever Watch’s total compensation package for employees.

TS/SCI FSP

US-MD-Annapolis Junction
US-CO-Aurora

Dev Ops, Agile, AWS, CI/CD, Ansible, Linux